Year 1 interview lesson help

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I'm to teach 30 Year 1 students a 30mins stand-alone cross-curricular literacy lesson on a stimulus of my choosing with plans to include oracy.

I want to showcase my musical skills. I'm thinking using Carnival of the animals, having students listen to maybe 1/2 movements of the suite. Then, divide the children into groups of 5/6, have them describe the music by what it sounds like, what emotion they feel, what it reminds them of (imagery). I would give each group sentence starters and one word responses for them to piece together and then say their answers to their group/the class. I am thinking of having some blank ones just in case HAPs want to write their own and having picture PECs for SEN students.

Does this sound doable for year 1s?

Thanks in advance!

I think it sounds fine. My only concern is you're likely to get very simple ideas by talking about their emotion with the music and what the music sounds like. E.g. you're likely to get a lot of I feel happy/sad and the music was slow/bumpy.

Could you flip it to talk about the animals rather than their reaction to it? What do you think the animals are doing at this moment? Etc. Then I think the animals are _ and you could extend it by adding in because.

Or a bit of storytelling to parts of the music, even writing a model story of a couple of line to teach and rehearse with actions.

I would be tempted to do lots of paired talk - in a group of 5 or 6, one or two children will be likely to dominate and some will say nothing/be off task.

I'd also think about chunking the lesson down. So maybe listen to one movement/part movement, then paired discussion of answers to questions (I like the idea of getting them to think about what the animal might be and how do they know, or what might the animal be doing rather than feelings and imagery as more concrete for 5 year olds). That will give you the chance to model your expectation of their answers, supportng them to put their ideas into full sentences.

You could then either set a different thinking prompt to the same movement and send them off from the carpet to discuss their ideas and write them down in pairs (that gets round the ones that can't write), or use the same prompt as you've used as a class but play a different movement. Plenary brings them back to the carpet to share their ideas with the class.